Else Harney

Else Käthe Margarete Harney (born May 17, 1919 in Barmen , † April 22, 1984 in Klotten ) was a German painter , ceramist , sculptor and artisan .

origin

Else Harney was the daughter of Hans Harney (1877–1954), a former consul and former director of Deutsche Bank in Düsseldorf . In 1917 he bought Coraidelstein Castle in Klotten from the Counts of Kesselstatt and had two houses built there.

Life

Ceramic bud by Wendelin Stahl for Else Harney's grave

Harney was a student of Hugo Troendle in Munich from 1937 to 1938 and from 1938 to 1939 she completed a pottery apprenticeship in the ceramics workshop of Kunow & Drose in Höhr-Grenzhausen . She then took lessons from 1939 to 1942 with Irma Breusing, Hilly Steiger and Werner Heuser at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1946 to 1951 she worked as a freelance painter and sculptor. From 1951 to 1952 she completed an apprenticeship in the pottery trade as a student of Albrecht Klauer Simonie and with the master potter Rudi Stahl in Höhr-Grenzhausen, where she passed her master craftsman examination in 1955. She had been living with her partner Wendelin Stahl , the younger brother of Rudi Stahl (1918–1987), at her father's Coraidelstein Castle since 1952 . There she and Wendelin set up a joint workshop in 1952. She soon made a name for herself as a great ceramic artist. Her work was characterized by soft, floral and human lines, with a gain in sensitive plasticity outweighing glazes with a reduced color. Due to her pottery skills, she obtained diplomas from the Concorso internationale della ceramica d'arte in Faenza from 1966 to 1968 and the State Prize for Arts and Crafts from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1971 in Mainz . She showed her ceramics at the “ceramic miniatures” in Tokyo , Paris , Lausanne and Budapest . One of her last exhibitions took place in 1982 in Osaka . After her death in 1984, her artistic objects were permanently exhibited in the Keramion Ceramics Museum in Frechen and in the Hetjens German Ceramics Museum in Düsseldorf .

literature

• Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Harney, Else , In: Personalitäten des Kreis Cochem-Zell, Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 141 f.
• Harald Reinhold (ed.): Wendelin Stahl und Schüler , Keramikmuseum Westerwald, German collection for historical and contemporary ceramics, exhibition from May 9 to May 31, 1992, district administration of the Westerwaldkreis in Montabaur in connection with the Westerwald ceramics museum (publisher), Höhr-Grenzhausen 1992, ISBN 978-3-921548-48-6 , 109 pp.
• Udo Garweg, Klaus Giesen, Gudrun Haberberger: Wuppertal artist directory . Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 978-3-89202-042-4 , p. 144 .

Web links

• Entry on Else Harney in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• Else Harney, In: keramik-sammler.de
• Unique ceramic pieces at Coraidelstein Castle: Unity of nature and art, by Stephanie Krannich, In: aerzteblatt.de
• Pottery Burg Coraidelstein, (Wendelin Stahl), owner Wendelin Stahl, Klotten a. d. Mosel, In: keramiksammlung.jimdo.com
• Literature by Else Harney and Wendelin Stahl, In: Uni-Frankfurt
• Literature by Else Harney and Wendelin Stahl, In: Gateway-Bayern.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harney, Hans, In: German Biography
2. ↑ Uschi Friderichs (author): Von der Römerfeste zur Töpferburg - Burg Coraidelstein , preliminary remarks: Technical work at the state Peter-Wust-Gymnasium, Wittlich, school year 1986/87, In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1988. pp. 237–246.
3. ↑ Wendelin Stahl and Schüler Ceramics Museum Westerwald, German collection for historical and contemporary ceramics, exhibition from May 9 to May 31, 1992, In: zvab.com